Got to use one of the new Coca-Cola dispensers

[sactoking]

How does the carbonated water get supplied? Goes for old machines too.

Just filtered tap water that gets 'carbonated'? Or does Jojo have to deliver tanks of the shit at night?

In most standard soda fountains they use filtered water from a municipal source that gets injected with the carbonic acid mixture at the fountain. The syrups are, for all intents and purposes, "flat" until they come out of the spigot. Syrup and carbonic acid are stored in bladders that ship in cardboard boxes, like boxed wine, that have quick-release connectors on them.

I would imagine that these Freestyle kiosks just use a concentrated carbonic acid cartridge similar to the concentrated syrup cartridges.

 

[Gibson486]

It is probably "refiltered" in the machine.

 

[guyver01]

Do you really think that they have a tank of Dasani water in these machines for when you pick Dasani?

considering that once you push the Dasani button, you're not getting "water" but another menu..

yes... i do believe there is a catridge inside with the different flavors that gets mixed with the filtered water.

It's not "tap" water that's coming out.

 

[Gibsons]

considering that once you push the Dasani button, you're not getting "water" but another menu..



yes... i do believe there is a catridge inside with the different flavors that gets mixed with the filtered water.

That's correct.

There are cartridges for all the different soda flavors, then cartridges for each fruit flavor. So if you order peach sprite, it mixes the peach and sprite with water and carbonates it. The cartridges look similar to an ink cartridge for a copier.

 

[TonyG]

In most standard soda fountains they use filtered water from a municipal source that gets injected with the carbonic acid mixture at the fountain. The syrups are, for all intents and purposes, "flat" until they come out of the spigot. Syrup and carbonic acid are stored in bladders that ship in cardboard boxes, like boxed wine, that have quick-release connectors on them.

I would imagine that these Freestyle kiosks just use a concentrated carbonic acid cartridge similar to the concentrated syrup cartridges.

I don't know what fountain machines you have been looking at, but they don't use a box of carbonic acid. They use a pump system called a carbonator, which dissolves CO2 into the water to create soda water, which is then mixed with the syrup at the dispensing nozzle. I have such a setup in my shop, along with a 6 head soda fountain.

 

[Anonemous]

This is the one they got at Five guys.

 

[Meghan54]

It's not "tap" water that's coming out.

Considering Dasani water is simply tap water that's RO'd, I'd say tap water is appropriate to describe what's coming out of the dispenser....filtered, but tap water, just not directly from the store's tap.

 

[guyver01]

Considering Dasani water is simply tap water that's RO'd, I'd say tap water is appropriate to describe what's coming out of the dispenser....filtered, but tap water, just not directly from the store's tap.

AFAIK, at their plant, Coca Cola filters it using the process of reverse osmosis, and adds trace amounts of minerals, including magnesium sulfate (Epsom salt), potassium chloride and table salt (sodium chloride).

so.. it's slightly more filtered, and 'enhanced'

 

[saratoga172]

Pretty neat machine

The local Fuddruckers had it. Had over 100 drinks to select from and allows you to mix them up if you want. Got me some Powerade Zero Fruit Punch.

Used one over the summer at Pei Wei in Addison, Tx. They have two machines. Apparently they run a version of Windows. I know this because one of them had some kind of terminal error with Windows dialogs popping up. Was rather funny.

 

[Svnla]

The only places around here with that cool machine are the local Wendy's.

I do like it because I don't have to wait for the restaurant staff for a refill and the machine was very neat and nice looking.

 

[jaha2000]

AFAIK, at their plant, Coca Cola filters it using the process of reverse osmosis, and adds trace amounts of minerals, including magnesium sulfate (Epsom salt), potassium chloride and table salt (sodium chloride).

so.. it's slightly more filtered, and 'enhanced'

As somebody who works in the industry. Desani is the same water they put into soda without all the rest of the syrup/flavors. Those trace minerals come from the filtration skid (Its RO plus some other stuff) they use and are the same trace minerals that are in soda.

In a nutshel, they put less in the bottle and charge more for it!! Yay profit from dumb consumers!

 

[rockchalk]

They got new coke vending machines at my university that have sideways 42 inch touch screens on them. Kind of waste of energy?

 

[sciencewhiz]

Find a machine near you http://www.facebook.com/cocacolafreestyle?sk=app_157819484263715

 

[ElFenix]

considering that once you push the Dasani button, you're not getting "water" but another menu..

yes... i do believe there is a catridge inside with the different flavors that gets mixed with the filtered water.

It's not "tap" water that's coming out.

no, it's not tap water. but i doubt there is a separate line for just normal unfiltered tap water from that machine.